Assuming you're looking for quaint walkable towns (and not stressing over the fact that they're surrounded by miles of car-dependent suburbs and rural areas), y

Assuming you're looking for quaint walkable towns (and not stressing over the fact that they're surrounded by miles of car-dependent suburbs and rural areas), you can find them anywhere and everywhere. Most small/medium sized towns on the east coast have a historic/old town that is like this, for example in Virginia state: Culpeper, VA [0] (passenger railroad station right in downtown that connects to all the big cities on the east coast) Warrenton, VA [1] (Ridiculously good downtown restaurant scene, whenever I go there there always seems to be some festival or market happening) Staunton, VA [2] (Beautiful area surrounded by some of the largest tracts of public land in the eastern US) Fredericksburg, VA [3] (tons of interesting history here) Charlottesville, VA [4] (look at that pedestrian-only shopping street a block away!) [0] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4731207,-77.9962447,3a,75y,182h,76.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1pD83ohOTjHsV_RNTOMhsw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4731207,-77.9962447,3a,75y,1... [1] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7131072,-77.7940715,3a,60y,297.97h,87.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sv0YTJL6m5fIySCy3Ev7sxA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7131072,-77.7940715,3a,60y,2... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.1496218,-79.0715993,3a,75y,139.1h,80.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVLmo1zO2LTHCK7Tdh2_TOw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.1496218,-79.0715993,3a,75y,1... [3] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3031279,-77.460567,3a,75y,168.73h,71.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spn0n1-SPanrfV7ZrcUDThA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3031279,-77.460567,3a,75y,16... [4] https://www.google.com/maps/@38.031349,-78.4795003,3a,60y,204.83h,95.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3bAytUZ-RwqJDJYfBbdLRg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.031349,-78.4795003,3a,60y,20...